Unreal Engine 4 C++ The Ultimate Shooter Course

Topics covered are:

• Character creation and movement
• Input for PC and console controllers
• Extensive use of Animation Blueprints (and Anim Instances, their C++ parents)
• 1D and 2D Blendspaces
• Strafing
• Turn-in-place
• Aim Offsets
• Inverse Kinematics
• Animation Curves
• Character lean when running
• Crouching (with dynamic capsule resizing)
• Turn hips while running
• Weapon fire with recoil animations
• Reloading
• Weapon blast and impact particles
• Weapon beam particles (smoke trails)
• Bullet shell eject particles
• Sound effects
• Blending animations per bone, by bool, and by enum – play one animation with one part of the body (running or crouching) while simultaneously playing another animation with another part of the body (reload, aim, or weapon fire)
• Attach and equip different weapons (pistols, submachine guns, assault rifles)
• Automatic and semi-automatic gunfire
• Move different gun parts (the clip/magazine, and pistol slide) during animations
• Camera zoom while aiming
• Dynamic crosshairs that spread in reaction to:
  • Character speed
  • Weapon fire
  • Aiming
  • Jumping
• Different crosshairs per weapon
• Widget components, showing:
  • Item names
  • Item types
  • Ammo counts
  • Item rarity
• HUD animations
• Full item inventory system
• Data tables, in Blueprints and C++
• Curves to control:
  • Item movement during pickup
  • Color and brightness pulse for material effects
• Material creation, including:
  • Post-process materials
  • Dynamic material instances
  • Setting material properties from C++
  • Driving material properties with curves
  • Material functions
  • Blending materials together
  • Outline effects
  • Glow/pulse effects
• Retargeting animations
• Retargeting whole Animation Blueprints
• Numerous gameplay algorithms
• Use of data structures, including:
  • structs
  • enums
  • arrays
  • maps
  • and more
• Animation montages
• Anim Notifies for sounds, weapon trails, and custom notifies
• Sync markers for footsteps and sync groups
• The course comes with a huge amount of assets, including:
  • Sounds
  • Textures
  • Particle effects
  • Meshes
• Delegates
• Interfaces
• Dynamic footsteps that spawn different sounds and particle systems depending on the surface type
• Physical materials and surface types
• Niagra particle systems
• Line traces
• Enemy AI
• Behavior Trees and Blackboard Components
• Multiple enemy types with varying levels of Health, Damage, Size and Movement Speed
• Headshot damage, with:
  • Higher damage for headshots
  • Number widgets that pop up and animate with bullet hits
  • Different colored numbers for headshots
• Character and enemy health bars
• Enemy patrol, agro, chase and attack player
• Death mechanics
• Stun mechanics
• Melee attacks with melee weapon trails
• Explosives that cause damage and death
• Level prototyping
• Creating full levels based on our prototypes using professional assets
• Light baking
• Post-process effects